Abstract
More than 50 years after the writing of the papers assembled as Stone Age Economics, the author’s voice has been silenced. That immense contribution has been the subject of numerous reassessments. The volume contains all his important work in economic anthropology. Each chapter is teeming with ideas, and even seasoned teachers in this field will usually discover something new each time they revisit it. Looking at it again this year, I was astonished to realize that I used to use this book for teaching first-year undergraduates. Even for the brightest young sparks in Cambridge, to require the completion within a week of an essay evaluating Marcel Mauss’s The Gift (Mauss 2015 [1925]) in the light of the fourth chapter of Stone Age Economics(Sahlins 2004 [1972]) was asking rather a lot.
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